Yerate'el

Yerate'el represents a fighting generosity. You readily act for a friend, a cause or someone who needs protection. Courage, loyalty and impatience with corruption can make you valuable to others. The image of D'Artagnan brings these traits together: chivalrous and generous, but also impatient, quarrelsome and ready to take risks.

The difficult centre of this portrait is guilt, often greater than your real responsibilities. You may feel at fault without connecting that weight to any specific action. Your personal worth remains in doubt, and doing something for others becomes easier than recognising a desire of your own.

This can lead to a constant struggle against those you consider evil. Exposing misconduct or defending someone offers relief: at last the problem seems to be outside you and have a name. But if you always need to find someone to blame, justice risks becoming persecution.

Barack Obama appears in this portrait through the public theme of confrontation with enemies. The useful distinction in your own experience is between necessary defence and using an opponent to ease an inner conflict. Acting justly requires assessing facts even when your indignation seems perfectly clear.

A sense of inferiority may push you to seek someone to admire without reserve. An ideal or a superior who assigns a daring task makes action easier, because the choice does not seem to come from you alone. Yet your independence remains strong, making the relationship with the authority you sought turbulent.

Risk too can take on the value of a sacrifice. You may take on the hardest burdens and neglect what you need to protect yourself. In gambling, it is particularly important not to use loss and danger as tests of your worth. You do not have to pay a price to feel entitled to exist.

The quieter side of the same difficulty is fear of joy. You may expect misfortune to follow success, or feel guilty when you gain something just for yourself. These fears need recognising. If you act only when a friend needs you, periods without assignments may leave you stuck and without a direction of your own.

Percy B. Shelley, Maupassant and Carlos Monzon are evoked as figures on a troubled path. In John Huston's films, the theme takes shape in characters pursuing an undertaking and meeting defeat and stubborn persistence. These images make visible the weight of a struggle that cannot reach an end.

Your best path is a practical contribution that does not require self-contempt. Consultancy, production, defending rights and helping professions can let you support others' success. Alexander Fleming represents research that opens an important possibility for many people through the discovery of penicillin.

Being useful can give you belonging, affection and continuity. It is important that usefulness does not become the condition for deserving all this. You can help and receive a reward, have a limit and remain loyal, want something for yourself without taking it from others.

If guilt persists, causes suffering or blocks choices, qualified support can help you understand it. Generosity does not require feeding that burden. Your courage becomes freer when defending others no longer serves to punish yourself and you can also recognise the value of your successes.